Almighty God,
We offer this year as it opens before us:
Invest its ideas with your energy;
Invest its events with your possibilities;
Invest its encounters with your presence;
that in it, heaven and earth may collide and your Kingdom come.

Everlasting Father
We offer our circuit as this year opens before us:
Break down our self serving boundaries and build up our faith in you;
Break down our old ways and inspire new ways;
Break down our fear of change and instil your excitement and hope
that in it, heaven and earth may collide and your Kingdom come.

Living Lord
We offer each of our churches as this year opens before us:
Unite and enrich our communities with your love, forgiveness and patience.
Unite and enrich our relationships with diversity and similarity.
Unite and enrich our gifts and skills that they may be used to the benefit of all,
that in them, heaven and earth may collide and your Kingdom come.

Precious Saviour,
I offer myself as this year opens before me:
Take me as I am and break me – in my vulnerability;
strengthen me with your grace
Take me as I am and mould me – in my pliability, fashion me to be like you.
Take me as I am and replenish me – in my thirst, quench me with your Spirit
that through me,
heaven and earth may collide
and your Kingdom come.

Worship Band
We would like to create a worship band to lead the music at the service to launch the new circuit on Saturday September 1st at 3pm. If you are an instrumentalist or a singer and would like to be part of this, there will be a practice evening at Queen Street on Tuesday 21st August from 6.30 till 9.00 pm. It would be helpful to have some idea of who might be coming in order to have the appropriate music prepared, so please email or ring Clare Stainsby to register your interest.

Crafts
We would like to make some craft items for use at the service at Flower of May on Saturday September 1st. Queen Street Methodist Church will be open from 5pm till 9pm on Tuesday 21st August for anyone who is interested to drop in and help in making a few things. All ages welcome!

Fun and worship for all ages to launch the new North Yorkshire Coast Methodist Circuit
At The Flower of May Holiday Park, Lebberston, YO11 3NU
Saturday 1st September 2012
Doors open for the service at 2.30pm
Everyone Welcome
Refreshments available after the service. Visit the Scarborough Fair Museum & ride the Carousel free from 3pm to 6pm. Up to 2pm the museum and rides are available but chargeable at £1 per rideNew Circuit Celebration Poster.updated

This service is a wonderful opportunity to come and worship together as one church in Scarborough, to pray for the church and renew our commitment to work together in the name of Jesus Christ. All are welcome.

Churches Together in Scarborough invite you to:
A United Service during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
Sunday 22nd January
6.30pm
St Luke's Church, Stepney Drive, YO12 5DP

Calling all people interested in leading, and involved with arranging worship, (including ‘Local arrangements’)

You are invited to attend this 7 session course, approved as Worship Leader training but also relevant to those who enable and support worship in anyway e.g. Church Stewards and leaders of groups etc. The course is also available to anyone wishing to begin to explore a call to worship leading or preaching, or to further develop their skills in worship leading.

Aims

To aid personal involvement in corporate worship through an improved understanding of the nature of worship

To develop worship leading and worship supporting skills

To assist in the evaluation of gifts and abilities in the various roles involved in worship leading